incredibly cute! we have humane-face govt predicating
flood control money on usaid-made urban reforms!
--- Vinay Baindur <yanivbin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> *Nod to changes in urban renewal norms*
>
http://www.thestatesman.net/page.news.php?clid=2&theme=&usrsess=1&id=127594
>
> Statesman News Service
> NEW DELHI, Aug. 24: The Cabinet Committee on
> Economic Affairs (CCEA) today
> approved modifications in the guidelines of
> Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban
> Renewal Mission (JNNURM) as also a scheme for
> critical flood control and
> anti-erosion in the Brahmaputra and Barak valley.
> The modification in the JNNURM guidelines is for
> both the sub-mission for
> urban infrastructure and governance and sub-mission
> for basic services to
> the urban poor, the information and broadcasting
> minister, Mr Priya Ranjan
> Das Munshi, said at the end of the meeting chaired
> by Prime Minister, Dr
> Manmohan Singh.
> The modifications would: a) expand the present
> composition of central
> sanctioning and monitoring committee (CSMC) for
> sanctioning projects by
> incorporating as members secretaries of finance
> (expenditure), environment
> and forests, social justice and empowerment, health
> and family welfare and
> education.
> b) It would authorise the CSMC to appraise and
> sanction projects costing up
> to Rs 500 crore with the approval of the urban
> development minister, the
> housing and urban poverty alliaviation minister or
> the finance minister as
> the case may be. All projects costing above Rs 500
> would be brought before
> the EFC/CCEA as per the normal procedure.
> In the other decision, the CCEA approved a scheme
> amounting to Rs 225 crore
> for critical flood control and anti-erosion projects
> in the Brahmaputra and
> Barak valley by the concerned state governments for
> Rs 205 crore and by the
> Brahmaputra Board for Rs 20 crore during the X Plan
> period.
> The approval followed recommendations of a Task
> Force set up by the Prime
> Minister in 2004 after severe floods in Assam, Mr
> Dasmunsi said. Though all
> the recommendations were not taken up, the scheme
> would protect the life and
> properties of the people and installations from
> natural calamities, like
> flood and erosion caused by the rivers Brahmaputra
> and the Barak in the
> North-Eastern states, including Sikkim and West
> Bengal, he said.
> The Brahmaputra and the Barak Basin states,
> comprising Assam, Arunachal
> Pradesh, Tripura, Sikkim, North Bengal, Mizoram,
> Nagaland, Meghalaya and
> Manipur, face the fury of the Brahmaputra and Barak
> rivers and their
> tributaries year after year. The state governments
> do not have sufficient
> resources to tackle this problem. But the centre had
> provided a total of Rs
> 390.94 crore as central loan assistance and Rs 10.09
> crore as grant-in-aid
> to Assam from 1974-75 onwards for executing flood
> control schemes in the
> Brahmaputra Basin up to March 2000.
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flood control money on usaid-made urban reforms!
--- Vinay Baindur <yanivbin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> *Nod to changes in urban renewal norms*
>
http://www.thestatesman.net/page.news.php?clid=2&theme=&usrsess=1&id=127594
>
> Statesman News Service
> NEW DELHI, Aug. 24: The Cabinet Committee on
> Economic Affairs (CCEA) today
> approved modifications in the guidelines of
> Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban
> Renewal Mission (JNNURM) as also a scheme for
> critical flood control and
> anti-erosion in the Brahmaputra and Barak valley.
> The modification in the JNNURM guidelines is for
> both the sub-mission for
> urban infrastructure and governance and sub-mission
> for basic services to
> the urban poor, the information and broadcasting
> minister, Mr Priya Ranjan
> Das Munshi, said at the end of the meeting chaired
> by Prime Minister, Dr
> Manmohan Singh.
> The modifications would: a) expand the present
> composition of central
> sanctioning and monitoring committee (CSMC) for
> sanctioning projects by
> incorporating as members secretaries of finance
> (expenditure), environment
> and forests, social justice and empowerment, health
> and family welfare and
> education.
> b) It would authorise the CSMC to appraise and
> sanction projects costing up
> to Rs 500 crore with the approval of the urban
> development minister, the
> housing and urban poverty alliaviation minister or
> the finance minister as
> the case may be. All projects costing above Rs 500
> would be brought before
> the EFC/CCEA as per the normal procedure.
> In the other decision, the CCEA approved a scheme
> amounting to Rs 225 crore
> for critical flood control and anti-erosion projects
> in the Brahmaputra and
> Barak valley by the concerned state governments for
> Rs 205 crore and by the
> Brahmaputra Board for Rs 20 crore during the X Plan
> period.
> The approval followed recommendations of a Task
> Force set up by the Prime
> Minister in 2004 after severe floods in Assam, Mr
> Dasmunsi said. Though all
> the recommendations were not taken up, the scheme
> would protect the life and
> properties of the people and installations from
> natural calamities, like
> flood and erosion caused by the rivers Brahmaputra
> and the Barak in the
> North-Eastern states, including Sikkim and West
> Bengal, he said.
> The Brahmaputra and the Barak Basin states,
> comprising Assam, Arunachal
> Pradesh, Tripura, Sikkim, North Bengal, Mizoram,
> Nagaland, Meghalaya and
> Manipur, face the fury of the Brahmaputra and Barak
> rivers and their
> tributaries year after year. The state governments
> do not have sufficient
> resources to tackle this problem. But the centre had
> provided a total of Rs
> 390.94 crore as central loan assistance and Rs 10.09
> crore as grant-in-aid
> to Assam from 1974-75 onwards for executing flood
> control schemes in the
> Brahmaputra Basin up to March 2000.
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>
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